@Symbeline, LOL! You beat me to that comment I’m wondering if gravy will be involved.
I agree with the buffet. When my daughter was learning table foods, I visited the casino buffet a lot, where eating was free for her. It saved a lot on my grocery bill finding out there what she would swallow and what she would dump under the table.
We also did a lot with the video camera. I would make up fake commercials for her, and she would work on her showbiz skills, or I’d just have her practice spelling words and such. She got a big kick seeing herself when it was played back, so practice was a lot of fun for her. She was a good speller, and could spell Mississippi when she was three. She was also quite the ham, and developed a real talent for building suspense. She would look like I had asked the impossible, then while people are laughing that I gave her such a long word, she’d start in. She’d stop after the first three letters, to get people to pay attention, then she’d roll her eyes and draw out a couple more letters. She didn’t break it up the same way most people do, so watchers would expect her to trip up. Anyone within earshot would be leaning way over toward her to hear the rest.
Lots of her practices were done under a sign I taped on the wall, “Will work for buffet.” She kept hoping she would get to do a commercial for a casino buffet.